2026Q3 Reports: SIGMORPHON
This is the 2024-2025 annual report for SIGMORPHON, ACL's special interest group for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics.
Membership
The SIG membership is documented in the following table, observing 33% growth from 196 to 260 members in the past 5 years. Growth peaked in 2023, and has been slower since.
| Year | Membership |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 260 |
| 2025 | 251 |
| 2024 | 239 |
| 2023 | 218 |
| 2022 | 196 |
| 2021 | 175 |
| 2020 | 176 |
| 2019 | 176 |
| 2018 | 157 |
| 2017 | 167 |
| 2016 | 157 |
| 2015 | 150 |
| 2014 | 144 |
| 2013 | 142 |
| 2012 | 137 |
| 2011 | 120 |
| 2010 | 105 |
| 2009 | 96 |
| 2008 | 90 |
| 2007 | 73 |
| 2006 | 55 |
Workshop
The 22nd SIG workshop was held at NAACL 2025, organized by Garrett Nicolai, Eleanor Chodroff, Çağrı Çöltekin, and Fred Mailhot. Attendance was approximately 30 participants, in-person and online. Attendance has been slowly decreasing, and this year, we held a discussion with members to discuss ways to increase interest in the SIG.
In line with reduced attendance, there were only 4 papers submitted to the workshop; after careful review, all 4 were accepted. After polling the community in the summer of 2024, and receiving comments at the low quality of reviews in previous workshops, efforts were made to improve review quality. The organizing team reviewed the reviews, and noted an improvement in review quality; however, since reviewer load was quite low, this may have contributed to the improvement more than any other effort.
Kyle Gorman of CUNY was invited to give a shared talk, and was also invited to participate in a community panel on the state of the SIG with Kristine Yu (UMass - Amherst), Gaspar Begus (UC - Berkeley), and Connor Mayer (UC - Irvine)
For the first time since 2017, there was no SIGMORPHON workshop in 2026, due to low participation in the previous workshops. We are planning to host a new workshop in 2027.
We are looking to reinvigorate the shared tasks in the next edition of the workshop.
Elections
The officers of the SIG are listed on the website: https://sigmorphon.github.io/. Officers were re-elected in January 2025, and will serve for a 2-year term, with the next election to occur in late 2026.